Dependence is when someone has made a choice
to
continue use despite having full knowledge of the potential
consequences,
whereas addiction can be considered to be the reversal of intent,
continuing
to use against one’s own better judgment, or loss of control.Jack Trimpey, in his book Rational Recovery,
speaks to this issue (p. 57) and it clearly fits into one of the major
aspects of Dr. Callahan’s work, namely Psychological Reversal, which is
discussed in detail in chapter 11.

In 1929 Walter B. Cannon described the
sympathetic
and parasympathetic responses to stress that he termed the "fight or
flight"
responses. These responses can have a tremendous physiological impact
on
us and are easily set in motion by any form of stress, anxiety, fear,
panic
or phobia The neuro-endocrine system, which includes the adrenals and
pituitary,
will produce chemicals and hormones which in large amounts can be very
harmful. If there is anger, rage, fear or excitement, then
over-secretions
of adrenalin or noradrenalin can lead to heart attacks or emotional
breakdown,
whereas long term physical or mental exertion can lead to
over-secretions
of cortisone, cortisol or corticosterone and this can lead to
susceptibility
to infections. Burn-out can result from brain cells being depleted of
their
neurotransmitters. The immune system can be affected by many toxins or
allergens (environmental stressors) such as chemicals, foods, pollens
and
perfumes. (Sahley pps.16-17) These can also cause "reversals", which
also
are covered in detail in chapter 11.

The autonomic and central nervous systems
govern
the messages and automatic reactionary functions of the body. Therefore
our heart rate, blood pressure, circulation, respiration, posture, and
digestion can all be negatively impacted and lead to obvious physical
tensions
such as headaches.

Fritz Perls stated that, “Fear is the
excitement
without the breath.” It has been established that for some there is a
direct
link between having panic attacks and alcoholism, and that
hyperventilation
and fear of dying can be a direct trigger for the need to "mood alter".
(Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly. 1993. Vol.10. pps. 1-2)

As already stated, stress can also be said to
come from three main sources; fear, pain, and fear of more pain, which
in turn can produce "anticipatory anxiety". Proponents of the Three In
One Concepts believe that perceptions of fear, pain and fear of more
pain
produce a Negative Emotional Charge (NEC). (Stokes/Whiteside p. 59)
This
is very relevant to the issue of reversals and corrections of same.

Some data involving phobics with symptoms that
range from simple anxiety to full-blown phobias would suggest that the
subconscious has become saturated by past traumatic events, which are
unresolved,
and therefore lead to the over-saturation (or total depletion) of
chemicals
and hormones that are designed to regulate us. The key lies in the
ability
of an anxious person to realize the truth that, ”It’s over, let it go,
let it rest in peace. I can’t change it, the past is over, my control
is
in the present, not the past nor the future!”(Sahley, 1994 p. 9)
Thought
Field Therapy allows this re-framing to be facilitated at the core
subconscious
level and does not require behavioral modification or constant
affirmations
as these appear to be automatically and positively impacted.

It is known that a certain level of stress is
necessary to maintain optimal health. Hans Selye (a pioneer of research
on stress and its origins and effects) referred to this optimal level
as
"Eustress" or "positive excitement". If this optimal level is exceeded
and any form of system dysfunction follows, then that is referred to as
"distress". (Gerber p. 440)

There is an obvious fear or phobic response as
a result of something that has occurred in a traumatic fashion, or has
a distinct possibility of happening, but, as has been stated, the body
cannot tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined.
This
fits the acronym of FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real). However,
often
a phobia begins following a trauma that has not been resolved, and the
inner disturbance of energy can often manifest in some totally
unrelated
phobia.

Phobias are certainly forms of distress and
there
are many of them. For a full list of common and unusual phobias, I
would
recommend reading Dr. James Durlacher’s book Freedom from Fear Forever.
(pps. 213-219)

Agoraphobia is a fairly common fear-based
anxiety
disorder and a handout entitled Agoraphobia – the Grip of Fear detailed
the physiological response to stress and how it can lead to a
particular
phobia.

A person who finds himself in a dangerous or threatening situation
responds
with a “fight or flight” reaction. The mechanism is located in an area
of the
brain called the hypothalamus. When a person is threatened, the brain
transmits
a biochemical message and this causes the adrenal gland to produce
adrenalin,
which in turn sets off a general “call to arms” throughout the body.
What
happens
in the body? The muscles tense, the pupils dilate, the heart beats
faster,
the blood
pressure goes up, breathing increases, the stored sugar and fats flow
into
the blood stream, digestion ceases and all senses are heightened
whether
to
real or imaginary demands. This state is temporary as the body cannot
maintain it as a lasting condition. These biochemical responses to
stress
develop ulcers, headaches, skin disorders, insomnia etc. The panic
disordered
person’s response to stress is a feeling of terror (panic) and
subsequently
the development of anticipatory anxiety, panic thinking and avoidance
behavior that becomes agoraphobia.(Se-Cure program. J.C.Quinn workshop on phobias 20th April `94)

Fear can also provide "secondary gains",
inasmuch
as allowing us to avoid fulfilling our true individual potential.
Abraham
Maslow noted that the fear of our own higher potentialities is quite
common.
“We enjoy and even thrill to the godlike possibilities we see in
ourselves
in peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe,
and
fear before these same possibilities. Fear of knowing is very deeply a
fear of doing.” (Ferguson p. 91)

Having knowledge carries with it
responsibility,
and once something has been made conscious to us we have choice – and
if
we do nothing to change things, then that in itself needs to be
recognized
as a choice. At least the gift of healing brings one back to a place
where
true choice is again (or for the first time) available. If one decides
to do nothing differently, it is at least a decision made from a state
of healthy reasoning ability, and not from one of psychological
imprisonment,
torment, or ignorance.

Most people who have been in an auto accident
in which, for a split second beforehand, they `knew` what was about to
happen, but not the outcome, can relate to the following common
fear-based
reactions. The body goes taut, one stops breathing momentarily and we
instantly
"freeze" the image (still picture) of the moment that we felt that
death
or pain could be imminent. The treatment goal is therefore to
"unfreeze"
the image (picture), in order to allow the movie to "run on", so that
all
levels of one’s consciousness and awareness truly know that one has
survived,
continued to grow up, and did not die. This allows for both a sense of
inner peace and the dispelling of any self-sabotaging that may have
otherwise
surfaced. Core Belief Engineering is designed to reframe any
harmful
beliefs that appear stuck or frozen. To unfreeze such beliefs or
cellular
memory can change or shift the way we view or act in the present
moment,
or in the future.

Frozen development is the frozen vibration of
the original trauma. This means that if it is not attended to and
worked
through, then similar vibrations in the present will create the same
fear-based
response. “In the extreme state of shock or terror, there is total
immobility
of the muscles, spinal cord, and the lungs, a defocusing of the eyes,
and
a partial congealing of the fluids and the arterial blood supply.”
(Keleman
p. 66)

Energy healers may refer to "frozen psychic
time
conglomerates" as being when, from conception onwards, we had to stop
the
flow of energy around a particularly painful event, we froze that event
in both energy and in time, which creates a frozen
energy-consciousness.
Any part of our psyche associated with that event also froze as we
separated/dissociated,
or otherwise stopped the pain. It is that part of the psyche that needs
"thawing out", as it does not mature along with our physiology. It will
not mature until conscious thought and energy get to the block and
allow
the processing to take place and allow for true maturation. The need is
to turn any still/frozen fear, or anxiety images, into moving pictures,
and thereby merge the levels of consciousness and allow for the natural
flow of the body’s energies again.

When studying and researching how and where
memories
were retained and recalled, Wilder Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgeon,
stated,
"It was evident at once that these (memories) were not dreams. They
were
electrical activations of the sequential record of consciousness, a
record
that had been laid down during the patient’s earlier experience. The
patient
`re-lived` all that he had been aware of in that earlier period of time
as in a moving-picture flashback." (Talbot p. 12)

It was Karl Pribram who determined that the
brain,
through its holographic nature, had the amazing ability to store a
staggering
amount of information, and that the frozen imagery of trauma can be
accounted
for by the blocking of the necessary interference, and resolved when
the
interference patterns are unblocked and returned to a flow state.A person may continue to draw fear-based
situations
into their life in the form of re-enactment, and it follows that these
re-enactments will stop once there has been a resolution to the
original
trauma.

Theodore Millon described obsessions and
compulsions
as being similar to other neurotic symptoms in that they "reflect the
operation
of intrapsychic mechanisms."

Each neurotic disorder protects the individual from recognizing the true
source of his anxieties, yet allows the anxiety a measure of release
without
damaging his self-image or provoking social rebuke. In phobias, the
inner
tension is symbolized and attached to an external object; in
conversions,
it is displaced and expressed through some body part; in dissociative
symptoms, there is a blocking or splitting off of the anxiety source; in
obsessions and compulsions, tension is controlled, symbolized and
periodically discharged through a series of repetitive acts or thoughts.
(p. 405)

This statement also validates Jung’s belief
that
“neurosis is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.” Scott Peck stated
that most people who see a psychiatrist are suffering what is called
either
a neurosis or a character disorder, and that the neurotic assumes too
much
responsibility, which leads to self-blaming whenever they are in any
conflict
with the world. (p. 35)

AIP’s (Accelerated Information Processing
Techniques)
such as Thought Field Therapy and EMDR may use dreams, memories, or
current
behavior as foci in order to stimulate the specific neuro networks that
contain the disturbing information. (Shapiro p. 49)

We all carry within us a genetic code that can
include miasms (a crystallized pattern of Karma) whereby energetic
tendencies
inhabit genetic code, thus potentially predisposing us to particular
diseases.
Rudolph Ballentine states that he sees miasms as the manifestation of
unconscious
belief systems and archetypal psychological structures that furnish the
underpinnings of our thoughts and ideas. (1999, p.100)

Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician and the
founder
of homeopathy, believed that miasms were in the mind and the
organizational
structure of the "vital force", or the energy level of the person - a
certain
hidden mindset or energy state that allowed disease to take hold.There are three types of miasm:1) Planetary.2) Inherited.3) Acquired.

We can therefore have "inherited" miasms of
fears/phobias/traumas
etc. in our genetic "blueprint", i.e. multi-generational. As an
example,
Dr. Callahan believes that the fear of heights is an inherited fear in
all land-based chordates. This is supported somewhat by Rupert
Sheldrake’s
lab work with LSD. A chick, which would normally avoid an illusion of
height,
but when injected, would simply walk over it. The LSD apparently
"cures"
the fear of height, which may provide a plausible answer to why some
LSD
users would jump from windows.

Clients who have a phobia that has no obvious
origin will often report that a parent or grandparent suffered from the
same phobia. Dr. Hahnemann acknowledged an hereditary influence on
chronic
disease and referred to the "miasmatic" state as the underlying
susceptibility
primarily responsible for the various acute and chronic illnesses that
people experience. It is now known that the DNA of certain viruses can
be incorporated into the genetic material of cells and thus be passed
on
to future generations. (Ullman pps. 160-161) Further references to
disease-based
miasms can be found in Ullman’s Notes (p. 171)Some of the recognized planetary miasms include
exposure to radiation, petrochemicals, and heavy metals – Three Mile
Island
and Chernobyl would be prime examples. (`Bioenergetic Medicine in
Theory
and Practice`. Bretforton Medical Research Trust, p. 14)

A hologram is an energy interference pattern
wherein
every piece contains the whole. Every cell contains a copy of the
master
DNA blueprint. In order to understand the nature and relevance of the
hologram,
the so-called "phantom leaf phenomenon" is often mentioned, whereby a
torn
leaf or part-leaf is still shown to have the energetic pattern of the
previously
full leaf. This would seem to give further credence to "cellular
memory/consciousness"
and "DNA inheritance". This has been researched by such luminaries as
Dr.
William Emerson, who coined the term "psychogenetic ancestral memories"
(p. 8), and Michael Talbot, who wrote about a 16 year-old with Brocq’s
disease who was apparently healed through hypnotherapy: “This is extraordinary because Brocq’s
disease is a genetic condition, and getting rid of it involves more
than
just controlling autonomic processes such as blood flow patterns and
various
cells of the immune system. It means tapping into the masterplan, our
DNA
programming itself. So, it would appear that when we access the right
strata
of our beliefs, our minds can override even our genetic makeup." (p.
105)

This would suggest that the experience of the
past has been fixed and retained by the neurons firing at that precise
moment. It was Wilhelm Reich, the famous psychoanalyst and founder of
the
Orgone (energy) Institute, who referred to a distinct state of muscular
tension as "Armoring", whereby any movement, circulation or body energy
will stop flowing comfortably through the muscles in this state. Though
armoring would seem to be the way we automatically build bodily
barriers
to all physical and psychic wounds in life.

It is the perception of a particular trauma
that
appears to continue the damage, rather than what may have actually
happened,
and while one party may have been dramatically affected, another may
continue
and be emotionally unscathed. The subconscious is primitive and has the
logical thinking of a six-year-old. (Gerber p. 395) This is also the
age
at which we are said to be egocentric, and believe that anything that
happens
around us is as a result of who we are or what we have done. For
example,
if parents separate, a young child will often believe that in some way
they were responsible for what happened, and will often carry the
`guilt`,
even to their grave.